Staff Data Platform Architect

Blackpoint Cyber; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the architecture and development of its enterprise data platform. You will drive ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, observability, and cost optimization across multi-cloud environments.

You will mentor senior data engineers and partner with product, engineering, AI, and security teams to ensure data availability, quality, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on data engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Proven experience mentoring senior engineers.
• Ability to architect for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Data-first, analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of Blackpoint's enterprise data platform.
• Drive ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, observability, and cost optimization.
• Mentor Senior Data Engineers and provide technical leadership for the Data Platform roadmap.
• Deliver multi-cloud integrations (Azure, AWS, GCP) and identity integration with Auth0/Okta.
• Strengthen observability with metrics, lineage, SLAs/SLOs, and data lifecycle practices.

Skills

Data engineering

Mentoring seniors

System architecture

Data governance

Communication across teams

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Spark

EMR

Kubernetes

Python

TypeScript

Go

SQL

Iceberg/Parquet

Docker

Job description

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the architecture and development of its enterprise data platform. You will drive ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, observability, and cost optimization across multi-cloud environments.

You will mentor senior data engineers and partner with product, engineering, AI, and security teams to ensure data availability, quality, and reliability.